Ngaruawahia High School Yearbooks 1994-2009 Ngaruawahia High School Yearbook 2007 | Page 53
Cairo Sandford goes “potty” on television!
E
very
year
the
Electronics
Industry
Training
Organisation
(ETITO) run a prestigious
national competition for
young electronics inventors
called ‘Brightsparks’.
Last year, you may
remember, Charmaine Hopa
entered and gained 3rd
place.
This year three senior
Electronics students from
Ngaruawahia High School
entered with two different
projects.
Incredibly, once again we
gained a 3rd place nationally.
This time Cairo Sanford
came through with her ‘Pimp
my Potty’ Project.
Her pimped up potty
senses electronically when
the toddler has either ‘peed’
or ‘pooed’ and then plays
different tunes and flashes
lights as a reward for a job
well done!
Cairo and her family were
invited up to the big prize
giving function in Auckland
in November.
Television cameras were
there, as they are every
year, profiling some of the
young inventors and their
inventions for current affairs
programmes.
Cairo appeared on the
television programme Te
Karere on Friday 16th
November at 3:40pm.
Well
done
Cairo,
congratulations on your
wonderful achievement and
success in the Brightsparks
competition.
Maybe there are other
inventors at school that will
also be motivated to enter in
2008 and keep Ngaruawahia
High School on its winning
streak.
Splattered!
From left: Shayd Hinton, Robert Lloyd, Mangatawhiri Tahapeehi, Adam Moana, Cody Brooks, Halen Shadrock, Joseph Rayner, Maiti Tahana
(hidden), Timothy Chung, Vaughan Tengu and Alexander Stephenson.
T
he Pare Hauraki Year 11s
discovered a novel way of
dispelling all the stress and tension
of a term’s work by splattering each
other in paint.
Thirteen of our students were let
loose on a two-acre forested patch of
land at the Tour of Duty paintball
centre in Cambridge.
The overall experience was
thrilling and all those taking part had
an awesome time.
The experience ended with a
meal at the Hamilton Lake, arriving
home at 10:00pm.
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